Nepal Atlas of Language Groups
Author: Harka Gurung, Yogendra Gurung, Chhabi La
Category: Nepal   
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Table of Contents

Foreword ……………………………………… ii
Detailed Content ……………………………... iii

I. Introduction ………………………………… 1-12
A. Language Groups ………………………… 1
B. Language Ethnicity ………………………… 3

II. Tibeto-Burman ………………………………… 31-142

III. Indo-Aryan ………………………………… 143-180

IV. Dravidian ………………………………… 181-186

V. Munda ………………………………………… 187-192

VI. Others ………………………………………… 193-226

VII. Ethnic And Language Population
By District …………………………………… 227-266

References …………………………………… 13

Tables:

Table a: Language Reported in Census ……… 1
Table b: Population Cohort by Mother Tongue .. 2
Table c: Large Populations in Terms of Mother Tongue .. 2
Table d: Population Increase by Language Family ….. 3
Table e: Population by Social Group and Language, 2001. 4
Table f: Trend in Mother Tongue Retention, 1991-2001… 4
Table g: District Frequency of Ethnic and Language Groups 5
Table h: Ethnic Groups Reported But No Language pop. .. 9
Table i: Language Groups Reported But No Ethnic Pop. …. 12

Figures:

Fig. 1: Linguistic Map …………………………… iv
Fig. 2: Ethnic and Language Groups by Distinct …. 8
Fig. 3: Language Exceeding Ethnic Population by District 11

Annexes:
i. Population by Mother Tongue, 2001 ………………… 14
ii. Ethnic Versus Language population …………………. 15
iii. Ethnic and Language Groups by District …………. 16
iv. Ethnic Population But No Language Group by District …. 24
v. Language Group But No Ethnic Population by District …. 26
vi. Language Population Exceeding Ethnic Population by District 30

Appendices: Regional Tables …………………… 267
A. Tibeto-Burman …………………………………… 269
B. Tibeto-Burman (Rai Kirati) …………………… 272
C. Indo-Aryan …………………………………… 274
D. Dravidian …………………………………………… 275
E. Munda …………………………………………… 275
F. Others …………………………………………… 276

Index …………………………………………………… 279

Indigenous/ Nationalities

Nepal is a Multiethnic, multilingual, multicultural and multireligious country. Taking stock of these truths, the Constitution of the Kingdom of Nepal of 1990 has put forward a conceptual design to uplift the living standards of the Indigenous nationalities-respectively known, identified and addressed as ‘Adibasi / Janajati’ – by removing all sorts of existing economic and social inequalities and to set up and develop their healthy social life based on justice and morality, thus consolidating the national integrity, and preserving such peoples’ identities and cultural diversities by developing their languages, literatures, arts, scripts, religious and cultures and by creating special opportunities for their education, well-being and employment. … However, certain chronic anomalies still persist. The Census of 2001 has cited the populace of the Indigenous Nationalities at 37.2% of the total population of Nepal. By some official quirks, however, the same census enumeration has incorporated only 43 of the 59 nationalities, and the rest – i.e. 16 Adibasi/ Janajatis – remain unreported and unidentified in the Census of 2001. it needs no stretch of imagination that these 16 indigenous nationalities have been conveniently relegated to the category of “Others” which are registered at 4.8%

of the population. It is safe to claim, therefore, that the Indigenous nationalities command a respectable 42% of the total population of the nation.

……………. National Foundation for Development of indigenous / Nationalities,
An Introduction, 2003